Add women and stir?

In college, Professor Lynn Davidman, taught me that you can’t simply “add women and stir.”  The concept was simple.  If you add a new ingredient to a dish, the flavor of the dish – and often the dish itself – completely changes.  If you...
Twitter, I get it now.

Twitter, I get it now.

I think I finally understand what Twitter is all about. I know, I’m a little late to the game, but cut me some slack- technically I’m a GenXer not a Millennial.  Both Facebook and Twitter are like parties, with a different set of guests and styles....

More than just snot and vomit

So I wondered how I would follow up a deeply personal post like my last one – and then my son got sick.  And it got me thinking about my pediatrician and how AWESOME she is.  I’ve become convinced that pediatrics is 90% customer service and 10% medicine.  ...

Letter to my mentee on her graduation

Dear R, I feel so honored to have watched you go through the process of becoming an adult. Over the last months, you have ridden the emotional roller coaster that accompanies any major life change. You held on tight and even enjoyed the ride – at times –...

Enlivening: What it's all about

Last week, I received an email from a name I didn’t recognize. M said he was a student at Ralston Middle School. He thought I had done a presentation at his school and was writing to let me know that he planned on counting the number of times   i get called...

100 Things

I just bought Stephen Levine's book, A Year to Live.  In this book, Levine explores what it is like to live in the face of death.  He chronicles his personal journey of imagining his own death, and how deepening his relationship to death brought him...